Format:
Online-Ressource (263 p)
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Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0816656789
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9780816656783
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9780816656776
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0816656770
Content:
Throughout our history, Americans have been simultaneously inspired and seduced by the American presidency and concerned about the misuse of presidential power-from the time of Lincoln, Wilson, and FDR to Nixon, Reagan, and George W. Bush-as a grave threat to the United States. In Bad for Democracy, Dana D. Nelson goes beyond blaming particular presidents for jeopardizing the delicate balance of the Constitution to argue that it is the office of the presidency itself that endangers the great American experiment. The emotional impulse to see the president as a hero, Nelson contends, has ceded o
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-236) and index
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Contents; INTRODUCTION: The People v. Presidentialism; 1. How the President Becomes a Superhero; 2. Voting and the Incredibly Shrinking Citizen; 3. Presidential War Powers and Politics as War; 4. Going Corporate with the Unitary Executive; CONCLUSION: Reclaiming Democratic Power for Ourselves; Acknowledgments; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780816656776
Additional Edition:
Print version Bad for Democracy : How the Presidency Undermines the Power of the People
Language:
English
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